Miles heads to ECB Training Camp in South Africa
21 January 2015
Craig Miles has been selected as one of the next generation of England fast bowlers set for a South Africa training camp.
Sixteen young England fast bowlers from across the men’s and women’s development programmes will travel to the High Performance Institute of Sport in Potchefstroom in the next month to take part in intensive skill based and strength and conditioning training camps.
Craig will be joined by 5 other Potential England Performance Programme (PEPP) bowlers – Somerset duo Lewis Gregory and Jamie Overton, Matthew Hobden (Sussex), Middlesex’s Harry Podmore and Olly Stone (Northamptonshire). They will arrive in South Africa on Monday February 2 and spend 18 days training under the guidance of PEPP Head Coach, Neil Killeen.
The PEPP players – who have an average age of 21 – have been selected for the programme by England Performance Programme (EPP) Lead Fast Bowling Coach, Kevin Shine Each of the current PEPP bowlers will be hoping to emulate the likes of Steven Finn, Chris Woakes and Chris Jordan, who are all graduates of the programme.
Speaking about the PEPP fast bowling training camp in Potchefstroom, Kevin Shine said: “The 18 days that the PEPP guys will spend in South Africa next month represents the culmination of a long winter of hard training indoors and in the gym at the NCPC in Loughborough. Led by Neil Killeen, the programme is designed to develop the players physically, mentally and technically, so they can improve as cricketers and realise their full potential. The facilities in Potchefstroom are superb, and the camp will give them the opportunity to put all their cricketing skills into practice in an outdoor environment as well as continuing their conditioning work.”
